Bubsy 3D's art style was stated to have been heavily influenced by the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes shorts directed by Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones. In some promotional materials including an article in the magazine Gamefan, he was credited for overseeing some of the game's art direction and for choosing the game's flat-shaded, polygonal graphics, but his name does not appear in the final game's credits. However, according to Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi after a past conversation with one of the game's designers Michael Berlyn, Eidetic never worked with Jones on the game at all and the claims that he was involved in its development were not true.